By sorting your trash, green waste, and recycling at home you help the environment, ease the strain on landfills, reduce contamination, and return recyclables to commerce, usually as part of other products.

Please avoid contaminating recyclables and yard clippings by putting the right materials in the GREEN, GRAY, and BLUE carts.

The City of Fresno provides residents with three 96-gallon carts as a basic level of service. For your convenience, all carts are emptied on the same day by automated collection trucks. Carts can be placed out for collection after 6:00 p.m. the preceding day but not after 5:30 a.m. on the day of collection. Carts shall be placed out of view no later than 8:00 p.m. on your collection day.

We encourage you to take advantage of weekly curbside pickup and recycle as many things as possible. Please see the list of acceptable materials for each cart linked below. When you recycle, you save resources and help Fresno meet the State Mandate (AB 939) that requires all cities to significantly reduce the amount of trash sent to landfills.

If you are a residential customer that receives Alley Pickup Service, you are a part of the residential 3-cart program. See the above links for more information.

HOLIDAYS The City of Fresno Solid Waste Management Division will have regular recycling and waste collection service on all holidays except:

Thanksgiving DayChristmas DayNew Years Day

Holidays that fall on a weekday (Monday through Friday) will be serviced the next day (Friday collection will take place on Saturday). Holidays that fall on the weekend (Saturday & Sunday) will be serviced the following business day.

The following holidays are serviced on the usual schedule, however, please note that on these holidays our office is closed :